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Help with combining RCX and trains...
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 25 Oct 1999 02:48:32 GMT
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I would like to run a train with the Mindstorms RCX.
I seem to remember reading about someone applying 9 volts to
the rails, picking that power up through the powered bogey (sp?)
to run the RCX onboard the train, and using one of the motor outputs
of the RCX to run the train motor.
I believe this involved "surgery" to the train motor.
(sacrilege[1], yes I know, but I see no other option [2])
Does anyone have directions for this surgery?
(or a less blasphemous solution [3]) I want to be a "purist",
but it's a difficult path) I've searched LUGNET for everything
I can find on TRAIN+RCX, and not found "the answer".
I have the train motor, and see no obvious/easy method of
opening it. (I vaguely remember a post about its disassembly
but am unable to find it either.)
I hope I have asked worthwhile questions and provided sufficient
opportunities for witty repartee. Cheap shots and flames invited,
as long as everyone has a good time. :?)
thanx,
:?) bishop
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[1] While we are fessing up, my train designs are...(gasp) 8 wide!
I hope this won't cause me to be shunned.
[2] Can one feed power to the motor though the connector on the top of
the bogey, which I assume is for connecting the light?
[3] Always interested in new data/input.
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 | | Re: Help with combining RCX and trains...
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| It's dead easy if you are willing to have the RCX be stationary... just run the wallwart into the RCX power port, then have one of the motor controls go to the track. If you want to have the RCX onboard, powered by the rails, and controlling the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains)
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